Blog Status Part 1
Sep 12, 2007
JP aka Elmo
Eagleman Blog
Blogger
I announced earlier on my previous post that my blog will be on a 1, 2 or 3 week hiatus. The plan of moving my blogspot blog to my own hosting and domain were among the reasons for the sudden blog silence. A week passed and it seems that I've done 80-90% of my work including the unplanned reconstruction and facelifting of my blog template and the main site. For the time being, I decided to post again knowing that there are some minor codes to add to finish my blog template. You can also check the main site although still incomplete, I don't have any plans of removing it.
On my webhosting, I'm still reading the cPanel documentation and exploring it's settings and features. The Awstats under Web/FTP is the most compelling and probably my most visited section on the cPanel. It let's you see your domain's site statistics. Much like Google Analytics. Here, I can figure out the broken links on my site, the number of visits and how many times the site is crawled every day. Although it updates just every 24 hours, not real time, this tool helps you in diagnosing common problems and analyze traffic for your site.
As I've mentioned before, I moved my blog under my new hosting and domain. In Blogger, I've changed the publishing settings from blogspot domain to sFTP publishing. sFTPpublishing means that I'll be publishing my blog to my webhost using the Secure File Transfer Protocol. Instead of having my post on blogspot, Blogger now tranfers my posts, archives, rss on my domain. It was hard at first especially that I'm new to ftp publishing, The settings under Blogger's FTP was confusing until I figure it out after several trials. I need to setup an FTP account on my hosting which includes username and password so that Blogger can seamlessly transfer my blog to my hosting account. There are times that FTP connections between Blogger and my webhost won't respond to each other. Most part of my experience, the transfer was 100% ok.
Accomplishing those comes with some risks. Previous direct links on one of my posts that are previously indexed by search engines cause some broken links. Since I've changed my blog URL, all the search engine traffic now lands on my main blog page. Visitors need to search that specific posts they want to see or read. That'll be confusing for them and the reason why some of them leave my site early. My Technorati rank lost 20 precious links and my Feedburner subscription fell. I predicted these problems before and it's up to me to at least fix those or renew my inbound links again.
I've done some of the solutions and fixes to that and you can read all about that on my next post. I also added information on how I did my site and blog template. For now, I'll continue my re-coding of my blog.
Technorati Tags: Blogger , FTP
6 responded to "Blog Status Part 1"
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bluepanjeet | OTWOMD™, at
9/13/2007
had the same experience when I moved out from my old server. but upon trial and error I kinda mastered the ways of the host. Sa una lang nakakalito pero magagamay mo din yan. Goodluck on your new site. I'm excited to see it soon.
btw, what's your new host?
By JP aka Elmo, at
9/13/2007
@bluepanjeet: My site is hosted by Philhosting.net. Wala pa ako maisip ilagay sa main site ko eh. My blog is just under jpmonje.net/ directory but i planned before to create a subdomain for it. Kaso maiiba n nman ung blog address ko. So I stick to it n lng. Just focusing more on my blog template.
there are big discrepancies between my awstats and google analytics. I don't know which one to believe. Ah, whatever.
By JP aka Elmo, at
9/13/2007
@christian: i think Awstats is much more comprehensive. In my opinion. Since Awstats is integrated in the cPanel, all inbound traffic to your site will first be intercepted by Awstats.
awww... grabe with the technical terms... nosebleed?? hehehe.. anyways, goodluck on ur new site.. :D aabangan ko kapag natapos na yan...
By JP aka Elmo, at
9/13/2007
@abbey: naku, ma222nan mo rin yan. IT ka remember, hehe. Cguro search engine n lng gawin ko sa main site. hehe. Cguro by next week, finished na blog ko.
Alagaan mo baby mo. :D
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